In 2022, Global MIL Week, hosted by Nigeria, will focus is on MIL’s role in nurturing trust, advancing social protection, and encouraging collective solidarity, to be explored through the theme, “Nurturing trust: A Media and Information Literacy Imperative”. Read More
The IFLA Local History and Genealogy Section invites proposals for papers highlighting innovative local history and genealogy projects and activities developed via social media channels. Read More
The Social Sciences Libraries Section and News Media Section are hosting an ignite talks session “News Literacy: Fighting Fake Information at Your Library” at this year’s IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Dublin, Ireland, July 26-29, 2022. Paper proposals are due 29 April 2022 (updated). Read More
The papers from our successful WLIC 2018 conference session 'National Libraries and Social Media – Meeting the Challenges of Acquiring, Preserving and Proving Long-Term Access' are now available. You can read papers from the National Library of New Zealand and the Bibliothèque nationale de France in the… Read More
The session theme is "collaboration in LIS education in developing countries using social media" Read More
Would you like to spend a few hours a month volunteering for the Women, Information, and Libraries SIG? We're looking for volunteers to help with social media, and potentially creating a blog for the SIG. Read More
Our Action Plan outlines the key objectives for our Special Interest Group in the upcoming year. Take a look at our News feed to read updates on our progress. If you have questions about our work, suggestions about what you would like us to work on, or you… Read More
[This paper was in the Paris Satelitte Meeting program but the event has to be cancelled] With the recent advances in digital technology, the nature of libraries has changed dramatically. As more information has become available to the public through a wide range of media,… Read More
The document is an introduction for librarians new to Web 2.0 and Social Media, and who are interested in using publicly accessible social media tools to serve Young Adults in any types of libraries: public, school, special or academic. The aim is for you—the practicing librarian—to understand and… Read More